{"id":625,"date":"2017-04-03T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T09:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?p=625"},"modified":"2017-03-30T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T19:51:50","slug":"featured-speaker-cory-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/featured-speaker-cory-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker : Cory Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cory Miller is a former newspaper journalist turned full-time entrepreneur. In 2008, he started iThemes, one of the first commercial product companies in WordPress, that now offers key products like BackupBuddy, iThemes Security and iThemes Sync.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Topic Title:<\/b> Managing Your Iceberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Topic Description:<\/b> Life is like an iceberg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Too often we only see or share the good and great, the sunshine and success (or the above the surface stuff). But in reality, we all suffer and struggle at some point with things buried under the surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Particularly in the online world we\u2019re immersed in, it\u2019s too easy to get lost, or to suffer in silence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My story is an example of that. In almost 9 years of entrepreneurship (10 in the WordPress community), I\u2019ve had my share of above the surface successes (co-authoring a \u201cFor Dummies\u201d book, building a great WP company) as well as below the surface struggles (divorce and depression).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I will be sharing my personal experiences and story and how I manage my iceberg in business and life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Miller is a former newspaper journalist turned full-time entrepreneur. In 2008, he started iThemes, one of the first commercial product companies in WordPress, that now offers key products like BackupBuddy, iThemes Security and iThemes Sync. Topic Title: Managing Your Iceberg Topic Description: Life is like an iceberg. Too often we only see or share &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/featured-speaker-cory-miller\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Featured Speaker : Cory Miller&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368318,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/03\/corymiller.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jotV-a5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}